Deficits in Attention

Famous quotes containing the words deficits and/or attention:

    “Don’t forget what I discovered—that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)